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Wine & Sparkling

7 recipes

Bubbles doing most of the work. Non-alcoholic sparkling wine, rosé and sparkling tea, and the long, dressed-up drinks they build.

In short

A non-alcoholic wine cocktail is a bottle of wine with something added to it rather than a spirit rebuilt from scratch — sparkling under an aperitif, still red steeped with fruit, sparkling tea with herbs. One bottle covers several of them, so these are the easiest drinks on the site and the ones most dependent on which bottle you open.

The recipes

Two glass mugs of non-alcoholic mulled wine, each with an orange slice, star anise and a cinnamon stick, on a dark wooden table with red winter berries and pine cones.

Non-Alcoholic Mulled Wine

Red wine without the alcohol, warmed gently with orange, cinnamon, cloves and star anise. One bottle serves five, and the house smells of winter.

Non-Alcoholic Sangria

Red wine, citrus and stone fruit, left to sit. The one drink on the site that gets better for waiting.

Non-Alcoholic Mimosa

Orange juice, then sparkling wine

Garden Herb Royale: A Sparkling Tea Cocktail

Sparkling tea over ice with a little vermouth, a bitter aperitif and fresh thyme or basil. Dry, herbal and light.

Non-Alcoholic Golden Hour Spritz

Aperitif under sparkling wine

Non-Alcoholic Wine Spritzer

Wine, something sharp, something fizzy. A ratio rather than a recipe

Non-Alcoholic Citrus Orchard Royale

A bittersweet aperitif, white vermouth and a little orange aperitif, topped with dry sparkling wine. A dressed-up spritz in ninety seconds.

Three bottles, three kinds of drink

Sparkling wine and rosé

The familiar one
Tastes of
Green apple, citrus, white flowers, orchard fruit
Best in
Royales, mimosas, coolers — anything served to a room
Watch for
Styles run extra brut to demi-sec — read the label

Dealcoholized sparkling wine is what most people picture, and it does the social job well — it looks right in a glass and nobody has to ask what it is.

Read the style, then taste. Extra brut through demi-sec all appear in this category and they sit a long way apart. Dealcoholizing does shift the balance sweetwards, so a brut here can read a shade softer than a brut with alcohol in it — worth knowing before you add anything sweet underneath, and worth reaching for the driest one you have when the drink already carries sugar.

Lyre’s Classico alcohol-free sparkling wine bottle – elegant non-alcoholic prosecco alternative for weddings, birthdays, and celebrations without alcohol.
Where to start

Lyre’s Classico Grande Sparkling Wine

Green apple and citrus over a fine, persistent bead, dry and crisp.

$22.99

Sparkling tea

The tannic one
Tastes of
Tannin, jasmine, honey, a firm grippy finish
Best in
Long afternoons, and anything that wants structure
Watch for
Not a wine substitute — it is its own thing

Copenhagen Sparkling Tea and its like are the quiet surprise of the category: real tannin, doing what tannin does, in a bottle nobody expects it from.

It holds its fizz and its structure through a long glass. That makes it the one to reach for when a drink is going to sit — on a table, at a dinner, in someone's hand while they talk.

Copenhagen Sparkling Tea BLÅ organic 0.0% alcohol-free beverage made from jasmine, white tea, and Darjeeling.
The interesting one

Copenhagen Sparkling Tea BLÅ – Jasmine & Whit…

Jasmine and chamomile over white tea, with a Darjeeling tannin at the finish.

$39.99

Still red and white

The one that steeps
Tastes of
Soft red fruit and gentle tannin, or crisp orchard fruit
Best in
Sangria, and anything left to sit with fruit in it
Watch for
Fruit-forward steeps better than firm and tannic

Still wine is the half of this shelf that never appears in a cocktail book, because in the original it did not need to. Here it earns a place, because steeping is a technique that asks nothing of alcohol.

The grape matters more than the label. Garnacha and Tempranillo are the ones to look for — soft red fruit and gentle tannin, so four hours with orange, apple and cinnamon leaves them rounder rather than tighter. A firmer, more structured red tends to close up over the same time instead of opening out.

Cardio Zero 0.0% alcohol-free red wine bottle, healthy non-alcoholic wine rich in antioxidants, ideal for heart-conscious celebrations.
The one for sangria

Elivo Cardio Zero Red Wine

Garnacha, Mencía and Tempranillo, from the Élivo range built around a higher phenolic content.

$25.00

Two things that fix most sparkling drinks

Build it, and pour down the side

Everything else goes in the glass first and the sparkling goes in last, poured against the side. No stirring afterwards — every extra movement costs bubbles, and flat is the one thing these drinks cannot survive.

Everything colder than you think

Glass, bottle and mixers. Cold liquid holds carbonation; warm liquid throws it away in the first thirty seconds. This matters more here than in any other drink on the site.

What goes underneath

Half of these drinks are wine plus one other bottle. These are the two that come up most — the juice, the fruit and the soda all come from the supermarket.

Lyre's Italian Spritz non-alcoholic aperitif, 700 mL bottle of red-amber liquid with a pale blue label and copper engraved hare in a wide-brimmed hat
For a royale or a spritz

Lyre’s Italian Spritz Aperitif

Bitter orange under the bubbles turns a glass of wine into a drink.

$37.50
Roots Divino Bianco Non-alcoholic Apertif Front Bottle Image
For weight without sugar

Roots Divino Aperitif Bianco Vermouth

A splash of vermouth underneath adds body that syrup cannot.

$37.99

All aperitifs and digestifs →

A glass, without opening a 750

A mimosa or a royale for one or two, with nothing left to go flat tomorrow.

French Bloom Le Blanc 375ml organic French bubbly 0.0% alcohol bottle
Half a bottle, two glasses

French Bloom Le Blanc – French Sparkling

Enough for two mimosas, and nothing open in the fridge afterwards.

$29.99
Single-serving pierre zero rose sparkling non-alcoholic wine 200ml
One glass at a time

Pierre Zero Rose Sparkling Wine

Six 200ml bottles. Open one and there is nothing left to go flat.

$60.00
Assortment of Six Prima Pave Rosé Brut 200ml Non-Alcoholic Sparkling Wine Bottles
Three styles, six minis

Prima Pavé Bundle – Rosé Brut and Blanc de Bl…

Rosé brut, blanc de blancs and rosé dolce, so a brunch can taste across all three.

$89.99

All single-serve bottles →

Make it yours

Make it drier

Use sparkling tea
Instead of the wine. Tannin in place of fruit, and it holds its fizz longer.
Choose a brut
And skip anything sweet underneath. Cleaner, and more aperitivo.

Give it a spine

Vermouth
A splash underneath adds weight without much sugar.
An aperitif
Bitter orange under the bubbles turns a glass of wine into a drink.
Bitters
Two dashes. The cheapest way to make a sparkling drink taste considered.

Change the color

Rosé
Sparkling rosé instead of white. Prettier, and slightly fruitier.
Cranberry
Sharp enough to keep a rosé cooler from going sweet.
White sangria
A crisp still white with peach and apple instead of red with orange.

Serve it to a room

For a table
Build the base in a jug, top each glass with sparkling as you pour.
Herbs
A sprig per glass. Suits anything tea-based particularly.
Make it the day before
Only sangria takes this. Four hours minimum, overnight is better.
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Questions

Sparkling wine, sparkling tea or still — which should I buy first?

Sparkling wine if the drink is being served to people who did not choose it, because it looks and reads as expected. Sparkling tea if you want tannin and grip — it is the more interesting bottle and it holds its structure far better in a glass that sits. Still red only if you are making sangria, which is the one drink here that needs it.

How do I find a dry one?

Read the style on the label. Extra brut, brut, extra dry and demi-sec all appear in this category and they are not close to each other. Dealcoholizing does shift the balance sweetwards, so a brut here can read a shade softer than a brut with alcohol in it, but the label is still the fastest guide — and the sugar figure is on the product page wherever the producer publishes it.

Does non-alcoholic sangria actually work?

It is one of the more natural fits, because sangria was never carried by the alcohol — it is fruit, sugar and time. Four hours in the fridge and the orange, apple and cinnamon do the work. It is the one drink on this page that improves for waiting.

Why does mine go flat halfway down the glass?

Temperature and handling. Cold liquid holds carbonation and warm liquid does not, so a room-temperature bottle into a room-temperature glass has lost the argument before you start. Chill everything, pour down the side, and do not stir afterwards.

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